Excellence) Award by the Government of Pakistan (2000) COMSTECH Award for Physics (1999) Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award by the Government of Pakistan (1993) Gold Medal, Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1989) Abdus Salam Prize for Physics (1986) Fellowships Fellow American Physical Society (2006) Fellow Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1995) Fellow Optical Society of America (1988) References Recipients of Hilal-i-Imtiaz Recipients of Sitara-i-Imtiaz University of Rochester alumni Texas A&M University faculty Pakistani physicists Academic staff of Quaid-i-Azam University Quaid-i-Azam University alumni 1952 births Living people Fellows of Pakistan Academy of Sciences Theoretical physicists Pakistani information theorists University of Peshawar alumni Supercomputing in Pakistan American academics of Pakistani descent Edwardes College alumni Pakistani emigrants to the United States Fellows of the American Physical Society